Edmund Burke: “Light lie the earth on the ashes of English pride!”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?